Founding of Freetown

Name: Founding of Freetown
Start: 1792
Location: Freetown, Sierra Leone

1792 · Freetown, Sierra Leone · Africa · Politics

A 'free town' for ex-slaves who fought for the British Crown

Founding of Freetown — David Hond · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In 1792 some 1,100 Black Loyalists, former slaves who had fought for Britain in the American War of Independence, sailed from Nova Scotia on 15 ships and founded Freetown. After the slave trade was banned in 1807, the Royal Navy landed Africans freed from slave ships here. From this mix arose the Krio people and their language.

State: Freetown Colony, British Empire

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